The Discussion

I love the way HTML 5 et al. and Silverlight will be internally competing (as well as complementing) at Microsoft and how you've gone back to embracing the Web. This should win back a lot of browser heretics, myself included.

Nobody should be knocking Microsoft for IE, lets face it everyone has used it and in the early days of the internet, everyone, myself included thought it was amazing. The fact is MS will never be able to keep up with the Open Source variety. I moved over
to Firefox years ago as soon as i realised that i could bolt on free extensions to customize the browser. Perhaps MS should allow IE to go open source in an effort to compete with Mozilla. I just cannot see that happening though.

It is there, SVG in IE9, such a delight.Basic shapes are mostly there already, and I hope support for gradients, masking and clipping very near.I personally think MS will take similar strategy as Mozilla, leaving deep font and SMIL support to be the last features implemented, but we'll see.SMIL is great, but I take their complaints about some inconsistencies between SVG+SMIL and CSS-transitions are proper ones...But still, it's great to have SVG in IE finally!!